Emma Healey Quotes

Although my father's mother, Nancy, has dementia, and her experiences gave me ideas for some of the scenes in the book, it was my mother's mother, Vera, who most influenced the character of Maud. Vera died in 2008, before I'd gotten very far into writing 'Elizabeth Is Missing,' but her voice is very like Maud's.

Emma Healey

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: February 27, 1985

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Sausage is a great deal like life. You get out of it about what you put into it.

Jimmy Dean

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I just want the money and the fame and the adoration, and I don't want any of the other stuff.

Matthew Broderick

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It takes between three and six hours to make each snowball, depending on snow quality. Wet snow is quick to work with but also quick to thaw, which can lead to a tense journey to the cold store.

Andy Goldsworthy

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Women like me because I don't look like a girl who would steal a husband. At least not for long.

Jean Harlow

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I am associated with techno epics.

Trevor Horn

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A characteristic of older folksongs, in most cases, is that we don't know their composers or authors. Older folksongs were written often with no commercial purpose in mind. They were passed down by word of mouth, from generation to generation.

Tom Glazer

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I called my managers, and they were like, 'What is Tijuana Jackson?'

Romany Malco

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Being patient has made me a more precise fighter.

Luke Rockhold

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I think one thing that's always a concern to me is you see a role, and you're not seeing the character; you're seeing so-and-so do it. Then I'm taken out of the story considerably, personally.

Debra Granik

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I don't want to go bald, I don't know what's coming up next.

Chris Cooper

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When I was growing up in Nigeria - and I shouldn't say Nigeria, because that's too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I'm from - there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that's essentially what it is.

Chris Abani

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Choreographers tend to treat ballet dancers like kids they can manipulate.

Sylvie Guillem

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